Monday, March 30, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
Rosalie Gascoigne
She uses wood, iron, wire, feathers, and yellow and orange retro-reflective road signs, which flash and glow in the light. Some of her other works use faded drinks crates; thinly-sliced yellow Schweppes boxes; ragged domestic items such as torn floral lino and patchy enamelware; vernacular building materials such as galvanised tin, corrugated iron and masonite; and fibrous, rosy cable reel ends. (Wikipedia)
Gascoigne's practice involves the sculpting of old, weathered and "unwanted" objects into highly structured yet often subtle patterns. She mounts these textured arrangments on backings of plywood or sheet metal.
Tracey Moffatt
Moffatt uses a variety of different means to bring her art to her audience, including photography, prints, silkscreens, and ink applied to a range of mediums. Some of her works, such as "Self Portrait" are handpainted photographs. Beyond this, she embelishes her subject matter through costume, make-up and setting to convey the narrative-style nature of her works.
A strong feminist and racially confronting artist, Moffatt employs satire and wit to challenge her audience's cultural standing, as in "Something More". The artist herself is often placed within her works.
She uses wood, iron, wire, feathers, and yellow and orange retro-reflective road signs, which flash and glow in the light. Some of her other works use faded drinks crates; thinly-sliced yellow Schweppes boxes; ragged domestic items such as torn floral lino and patchy enamelware; vernacular building materials such as galvanised tin, corrugated iron and masonite; and fibrous, rosy cable reel ends. (Wikipedia)
Gascoigne's practice involves the sculpting of old, weathered and "unwanted" objects into highly structured yet often subtle patterns. She mounts these textured arrangments on backings of plywood or sheet metal.
Tracey Moffatt
Moffatt uses a variety of different means to bring her art to her audience, including photography, prints, silkscreens, and ink applied to a range of mediums. Some of her works, such as "Self Portrait" are handpainted photographs. Beyond this, she embelishes her subject matter through costume, make-up and setting to convey the narrative-style nature of her works.
A strong feminist and racially confronting artist, Moffatt employs satire and wit to challenge her audience's cultural standing, as in "Something More". The artist herself is often placed within her works.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Artist Images
Gascoigne: Disclocation, Exchange, Searching
Hall: Earth, Fracture, Organic
Moffatt: Window, Reflect, VulnerableSunday, March 8, 2009
Pre-Studio Tasks
Above is an oil painting I did as part of my 2007 HSC visual arts major work. The painting is one of four works that, together, form a highly framed snapshot of my life at that point. The image that i'm painting in this work is one of the pieces mentioned.
This an image of the interior of Peter Zumthor's thermal baths in Vals, Switzerland. The complex is situated largely underground, with cut-aways in the hill revealing it in fragments to the outside world.
Taken in April last year, this photo shows an effective contrast between the paved bustle of the Science Square and the floral beauty of the campus' landscape. Interestingly, the three trees exhibit vastly different stages of leaf loss, despite belonging to the same species.
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